Synchtube: watch YouTube videos with friends in real time
One of the most fun things about YouTube is watching videos with your online friends, but it's tough to keep 2 or more friends in sync. Pre-YouTube, we used to call each other on the phone and try to start a tape in our VCRs at the same time.
Fortunately, things have changed since then and now there's a tool to automatically sync up YouTube videos for multiple viewers: Synchtube.
Synchtube is kind of a combination YouTube and Ustream. You enter a YouTube URL to start a video room, and then friends can join in and watch simultaneously as if you were livestreaming. There's even the familiar text chat box on the side, so you can keep a running commentary with your friends - great for Mystery Science Theatre 3000 fans! Whoever starts the room can skip everyone to a specific point in the video by using the timeline just like you would in the standard YouTube viewer.
Now, if we could just get something like Synchtube set up for Hulu and Netflix ...
[via CNET]
Fortunately, things have changed since then and now there's a tool to automatically sync up YouTube videos for multiple viewers: Synchtube.
Synchtube is kind of a combination YouTube and Ustream. You enter a YouTube URL to start a video room, and then friends can join in and watch simultaneously as if you were livestreaming. There's even the familiar text chat box on the side, so you can keep a running commentary with your friends - great for Mystery Science Theatre 3000 fans! Whoever starts the room can skip everyone to a specific point in the video by using the timeline just like you would in the standard YouTube viewer.
Now, if we could just get something like Synchtube set up for Hulu and Netflix ...
[via CNET]













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Subscribe to commentsRandyJan 5th 2010 3:13PM
They have it for Netflix - it's just part of the 360.
pyrillixJan 5th 2010 6:05PM
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pyrillixJan 5th 2010 6:07PM
Actually since you mentioned Ustream, they have had this capability for a couple of years now, just enter the URL on the broadcast thingy and everyone can see it..
ddoingit1Jan 6th 2010 1:26PM
The phone industrie is such a competitive industry, for the sharing of files among, many applications, is the systems, working publicly illustrations, as one dynamic system, usualy jave script.
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ddoingit1Jan 6th 2010 1:28PM
U-stream, is a perfect example of technology sharing capabilities,
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